Rumer Willis Goes The Whole Nine Yards
05 September 2009
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Rumer Willis was born on location with the cameras rolling but 21 years later, she's still struggling to carve out a career as an actress.
The eldest of Bruce Willis and Demi Moore's three daughters, Rumer has been acting since she was seven, when she appeared alongside her mother in 'Now and Then'.
The following year she was in 'Striptease' and later worked with her father in 'The Whole Nine Yards' and 'Hostage'.
But despite her glowing CV and enviable connections, Rumer is only just starting to find her feet in the film industry.
She won laughs playing an awkward teenager in 2008 comedy 'The House Bunny' before winning a role in a remake of 1983 horror film 'The House on Sorority Row', titled 'Sorority Row'.
For Rumer - who plays a shy, bookish redhead called Ellie in the thriller - the role marked a turning point.
Even if her family name got her the audition, she won the role based solely on her acting skills.
She explained to BANG Showbiz: "You can't do anything about who your parents are. I think everyone has opportunities and everyone has doors that are open to them in different ways.
"If you're talented you'll get work. If you suck then you won't. In the end, talent is all that matters because you could go and get an audition, but if you go in there and you suck you're not going to get a job."
'Sorority Row' follows six university students - Jessica (Leah Pipes), Cassidy (Briana Evigan), Ellie (Rumer), Claire (Jamie Chung), Chugs (Margo Harshman) and Megan (Audrina Partridge) - who are beautiful, popular and carefree.
When Megan discovers her boyfriend Garrett (Matt O'Leary) has been cheating on her, the friends plot their dramatic revenge.
If you're talented you'll get work. If you suck then you won't. In the end, talent is all that matters because you could go and get an audition, but if you go in there and you suck you're not going to get a job.
On the night of the biggest party of the year, the girls give Garrett some "pills" to hand to Megan, telling him they will help her relax and enjoy herself.
As they watch via webcam, Megan feigns violent convulsions and starts foaming from the mouth, leaving Garrett horror-stricken.
The other girls rush in, pronounce Megan dead, and convince Garrett to help them dump her "body" in a nearby abandoned steel mill.
When they arrive at the eerie site, the girls jokingly suggest they look around for something sharp to dismember the body as Megan struggles to contain her giggles.
But while their backs are turned, Garrett takes a tyre iron from the car and plunges it into Megan's heart, killing her instantly.
Shocked, the girls dump Megan's body in a well and vow never to speak about her murder again.
Eight months later, the girls are celebrating their graduation when they receive a text message that changes everything - it's a picture of a hooded person holding the bloody tyre iron that killed their friend.
As they struggle to keep Megan's murder a secret and unmask their stalker, the girls are killed off one by one until they are saved by someone unexpected.
It sounds like one of a thousand stereotypical teen horror flicks, but Rumer says there's one crucial different - it's all about the girls, and not just as eye candy.
Even though they spend more than half of the film in their underwear, Rumer and the other actresses insist the movie is all about "female empowerment".
"When I read the script, I was really intrigued by how unique it was," Rumer said. "The way these girls talk to each other, it was all about them.
"It was a female-driven cast which I thought was great because most of the time in these horror movies all you see is the couple making love in the corner and then you see the killer outside the window and then the girl sees him and screams and then she ends up dying two minutes later.
"I was very excited about the female empowerment in this film."
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